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France 24
11-08-2025
- Politics
- France 24
Colombia presidential candidate Miguel Uribe dies of injuries after June shooting
Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe has died two months after being shot in the head at a campaign event, his wife announced early Monday morning. 'You will always be the love of my life. Thank you for a life full of love,' Maria Claudia Tarazona wrote on her Instagram account. 'Rest in peace, love of my life. I will take care of our children,' she added. The legislator's condition had returned to critical after he suffered a new brain hemorrhage related to the assassination attempt, the clinic treating him said Saturday. On June 7, during a rally in a working-class neighbourhood of the capital Bogota, the 39-year-old conservative candidate was shot three times, twice in the head. 01:39 Authorities have arrested six suspects linked to the attack, including a 15-year-old alleged to have carried out the shooting, and point to a dissident group of the defunct FARC guerrilla group as possible masterminds. By mid-July, Uribe was showing signs of improvement and had entered neurorehabilitation after several surgeries. Uribe leaves behind a young son and three teenage daughters of his wife, whom he had taken in as his own. 'Today is a sad day for the country,' Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez said Monday in a message on social media network X. 'Violence cannot continue to mark our destiny. Democracy is not built with bullets or blood, it is built with respect, with dialogue,' she added. A member of the Democratic Center party of former right-wing President Alvaro Uribe, to whom he is not related, he announced in October his intention to run in the May 2026 presidential election to succeed left-wing President Gustavo Petro. The attack revived fears of a return to the violence of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia, when political murders and attacks were commonplace. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a frequent critic of the leftist Petro government, demanded justice on Monday following the announcement of Uribe's death. 'The United States stands in solidarity with his family, the Colombian people, both in mourning and demanding justice for those responsible,' Rubio wrote on X.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
South Korea's presidential campaign begins amid fresh political turmoil
South Korea's presidential campaign formally kicks off Monday as fresh political divisions and turmoil grip the country. The country's conservative party on Saturday tried and failed to switch its candidate at the last minute, marking just the latest twist in the run-up to the June 3 election, which was triggered by former President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment over his botched martial law declaration. The economy is South Koreans' top concern, polls show, but the main parties have so far elided on how they would address the cost of living, The Korea Herald wrote. Instead, the conservatives' chaotic campaign start signaled 'opacity, confusion and personal ambition — a betrayal… of the electorate at large.'
Reuters
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
South Korea's former PM Han drops presidential bid, ending rift among conservatives
SEOUL, May 11 (Reuters) - South Korea's former prime minister and acting president Han Duck-soo ended a short, ill-fated attempt to win the conservative party's presidential nomination on Sunday after days of internecine disputes just days out from the election. Rival Kim Moon-soo was chosen as nominee for the People Power Party after party members voted on Saturday to retain him over Han, whose late entry into the race derailed the consensus over its candidate for the June 3 presidential vote. Han on Sunday said he "humbly accepts everything" and hopes Kim wins the snap election, which was triggered by the impeachment of the country's former president. Kim formally registered as a PPP candidate on Sunday morning, and is now South Korea's conservative hopeful against frontrunner Lee Jae-myung of the opposition Democratic Party. Han and Kim struggled for unity in the past week and had held a series of failed talks to discuss how to unite their conservative campaigns to avoid splitting the vote. Lee has been a clear frontrunner to replace conservative former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was removed from office in April for violating his duties when he declared a short-lived martial law in December. Kim, who was selected as the conservatives' candidate in a party convention a week ago, resisted pressure from the party to step aside in favour of the more popular Han, who had declined to participate in the nomination process while he was still serving as prime minister.
